Title from verso. Photograph of a landing craft carrying equipment for the men on Attu Island. Verso reads: "Attu -- The American flag flutters from a mast in this captured Jap [ Japanese ] landing boat as our men bring it ashore on the...
Title from verso. Photograph of landing boats being lowered over the side of a naval vessel. Verso reads: "Attu -- Two landing boats are swung aloft from one of the ships that brought American troops to Attu to harass the Japs on that...
Title taken from photograph. "S.S. Dora. Monthly service to the most Northerly Route in the World". Cataloger's note: The Dora was referred to as the "Bulldog of Alaska" for her ability to handle the fierce conditions of the Gulf of Alaska,...
Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Only a few Japanese prisoners were captured during the fighting at Massacre Bay, Attu. For these the war was over. The rest were either evacuated before the battle or were killed in the fierce fighting.